TWC/AP reports: NFL Ready to Take on the Weather in Super Bowl
God I am praying for the absolute worst to happen with this game. We need this to happen so Goodell can get ousted.
I'm not quite sure what the worse case scenario is.
If it is record cold, heavy amounts of snow and flat out terrible weather then everyone will watch because of the Super Bowl that is being played in the snow.
The media will hate it because they didn't get a warm vacation but the controversy will be the main topic on the four letter drama station as well as the NFL network and talk radio across the country. People will be talking about the NFL into March and that means the NFL wins.
In 2011 the Super Bowl was held in Dallas were all week long temps were in the teens and the media blasted the NFL for months. Well the 2011 Super Bowl was the most watched television broadcast of all time at least until the following year when the Super Bowl broke it's own record which stood for less than a year when the 2013 Super Bowl broke the record again. So the NFL followed up one of the worst weather Super Bowl weeks with three straight record viewing numbers.
In 2005 it was held in Jacksonville and there weren't enough rooms, the stadium is displaced from the entertainment in Jacksonville which is an oxymoron to begin with. They followed that up with the best viewing numbers the NFL has seen in any 8 year stretch in history.
People want something to talk about the next day from the Super Bowl. Outside of people that live in two cities in the country, nobody really cares who wins or loses as long as they can talk about the weather, the officiating, Janet Jackson's nipple, commercials and sometimes they even talk about the game itself.
Two of the most memorable games in NFL history involve extreme cold and extreme snow. I don't even have to mention which two games they were because we all know them.
I do know what best case scenario would be. Just after Roger Goodell hands the trophy to Benson and Payton an ex-cop and raging alcoholic with a short fuse takes out a bad guy from the rafters with the help of a egomaniac ex-football player who come to terms with their lives just in time to save the day. Upon becoming the hero the ex-cop dances a jig and Roger Goodell drops dead from a heart attack after all the drama.